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11-30
Judge questions mine permit approvals  -   Judge expected to decide in mountaintop removal case
11-30
High Court Hears Its First Global Warming Case  -  Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case  -    Supreme Court clashes on climate change  -   The Supremes take on Global Warming  -  A Hot Debate on Climate Change 
11-30
U.S. climate change lawsuit part of wider trend
11-30
Oceans storing climate change dangers
11-30
It's the Carbon, Stupid!
11-30
Green wants united front to push for southern W.Va.
11-30
Injury reported at local mine accident
11-30
Massey CEO says acquisitions, mergers among possibilities
 
11-30
Kentucky Mine Where 5 Died Is Abandoned
11-30
Watershed team hopes for more help from VISTA volunteers
11-30
In Britain, wind turbines offer homespun electricity
11-30
Plan Developed for Solar-to-Electricity Glass Windows
11-30
Concentrating solar thermal
11-30
Change utilities' financial reward system to promote alternative solutions
11-30
Can Energy Efficiency Be as Sexy as Solar?
11-30
BP Exec: Climate change, sustainable energy and responsibility: the future has arrived
11-30
Energy meeting ends by raising more questions; Sierra Club sponsors film and discussion
11-30
Lifestyle may induce mass extinction
11-30
California "Green Tuners" Clamor for Plug - in Cars
11-30
Coal Plant and Road Problem Hurting Car Sales
11-30
Even in heavy snowstorm, thoughts turn to global warming
11-30
Feedstock a Worry for any Chinese Biodiesel Growth   -  Biofuel Markets Hinge on Biomass Progress
11-30
Climate Overshadows Franco-British Energy Talks
11-30
Fight Global Warming from Your Desk
11-30
Report: Global warming big issue in N.Y.
 
11-29
Carbon Emissions Show Sharp Rise
11-29
WV DEP defends adoption of Bush mercury emission rule  -  Federal mercury limits lax, some say
11-29
State seeks to discipline Aracoma managers  -  Miners may be punished for violations in fatal fire
11-29
WVVA TV: Energy of the State
11-29
DEP’s top lawyer taking job with EPA  
11-29
Worldwatch Institute: Mountaintop Removal Mining Scars Landscapes, Communities
11-29
UM students do well at TISL
11-29
Clean elections’ fear unfounded  (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tool-, why not use them?)
11-29
Wealth: West Virginia gold
11-29
Fletcher, legislature to look at fuel costs
11-29
Incentive or subsidy?
11-29
Energy Use Can Be Cut by Efficiency, Survey Says
11-29
The End of Ingenuity
11-29
Clean Energy, Not Coal, Will Power Our Health and Prosperity
11-29
Global Warming: Will It Cause Multiple Species Extinctions?
11-29
Foes of coal to push options
 
11-29
Renewable-Energy Tree Lighting to be held Friday
11-29
Green light to dig coal ignores environment: court
11-29
National climate change service in America's future?
11-29
Climate change 'will put food producers under pressure for land'
11-29
 
Climate change already affecting UK's marine life
11-29
Denmark Points Way in Alternative Energy Sources
11-29
New University research institute to produce clean energy technologies for a greener future
11-28
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
11-28
Pine Magazine: The Southern Appalachians--America’s Spare Batteries
11-28
King Coal Loses Its Tarnish as It Destroys Earth's Atmosphere Landmark Australian climate change ruling puts heat on industry  - Govt ponders impact of mining, climate change court ruling  -  Greenhouse ruling unlikely to stop mine
11-28
As climate evidence solidifies, some U.S. energy companies request regulations
11-28
Supervisor let miner who died drive
11-28
Mine agency to test staff for drugs
11-28
Devastation lurks in catch-phrase  (letters to the editor are great tools; why not use them?)
11-28
Coal-Fired Power Plants Not the Answer
11-28
States push renewable energy, federal government lags
11-28
Global Warming Goes to Court
11-28
Renewed Concern Over Black Lung
11-28
NRG (Connecticut) Cancels Plans For `Clean Coal' Plant (They figured out there is no such thing as "clean" coal?)
11-28
Plan for coal-fired energy plants fires up opposition
11-28
Natural Resources Partners LP plans to acquire nearly 25,000 acres in Boone County
11-28
Election wagers didn’t pay off
11-28
EU Set To Get Tough On States' CO2 Emissions Plans
11-28
Tons of mercury could hit market
11-28
Wall Street Journal: After Decades, A Solar Pioneer Sees Spark in Sales
11-28
CSP technology
11-28
Worldwatch President to Address Renewable Energy Conference at U.S. Capitol
11-28
Forest Fragmentation Hurts Amazon Biodiversity (And if studies were done here, we'd likely find that the uber-deforestation that is mountaintop removal crashes biodiversity here in Appalachia)
11-28
Local Councils crucial to fighting climate change
11-28
Little Norway's big climate change battle
11-28
Students Speak Out with Google Technology to Address Climate Change
11-28
A Marshall Plan for greenhouse gases
11-27
W.Va. residents deserve a share of the state's wealth  - Very Rich Are Leaving the Merely Rich Behind
11-27
West Virginians face three wars (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tool-, why not use them?)
11-27
Inquiry: Miner was told to operate unsafe truck at Ky. surface mine
11-27
Federal mercury limits lax, some say
11-27
Pa. mercury regulations mean better health
11-27
Allegheny Power planning new transmission line
11-27
US News and World Report: A Texas Mess Over Coal  (There is no such thing as "clean" coal.  We may be able to pour billion into cleaning up emissions, but the pollutants don't magically disappear if they don't go up the smokestack. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you prep it for market, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics.)
11-27
Meanwhile, in Australia... Court finds climate change relevant to coal mine approval
11-27
Newsweek: To be pro-growth, we need to be pro-green
11-27
Hydrogen Economy from Photovoltaics
11-27
How mirrors can light up the world; Scientists say the global energy crisis can be solved by using the desert sun  -   Concentrated Solar Power  -  Sun, sand, water and safe energy, what more could you want?  -  Australia planning biggest space-age solar power unit
11-27
A young person's guide to peak oil and global climate chaos
11-27
Big Energy Firms Crimping Oil Supplies
 
11-27
British coast faces 2ft rise in sea levels
11-27
Climate change melting fabled glaciers
11-27
Insurance Company Is Making the Most of Climate Change
11-27
Changing Climate Is Forcing World Cup Organizers to Adapt
11-27
Time: 10 Questions for Al Gore
11-27
Global Warming Causes Meltdown for Gray Jay
11-27
Film: The Great Warming
11-27
Maldives: Solar power generators to reduce oil consumption by 40%
11-27
Poll fear in nukes plan
11-26
Up in Smoke: The African Apocalypse
11-26
States Will Tell Supreme Court Feds Must Act on Warming
11-26
On the Move to Outrun Climate Change; Self-Preservation Forcing Wild Species, Businesses, Planning Officials to Act
11-26
Bush administration needs to stop ignoring seriousness of global warming
11-26
Science a la Joe Camel
11-26
Governments can tackle climate change by giving everyone their own carbon allocation
11-26
Mine safety still an issue (letters to the editor are great tool-, why not use them?)
11-26
Blasts kill at least 53 Chinese miners   -  Gas Explosions Kill At Least 53 At Two China Coal Mines
11-26
Living next to a mine in Wyoming
11-26
Wind generation pledge being met in Western states
11-26
China Turns to Solar Power
11-26
Swiss test solar panels at Jungfrau summit
11-26
Forecast for home market is sunny
11-26
Coffee culture drives firm into the fast lane for renewable fuel
11-26
TV's Brave Faces
11-26
Looking to the clouds for climate-change clues
11-26
Will Global Warming Unleash More Seismic Activity?
11-25
Ignore Degraded Ecosystems at Your Peril, Corporations Warned   -  Ecosystem Challenges and Business Implications
11-25
Mountain Justice Spring Break
11-25
Bush Closing EPA Libraries: A Step Shy of Book-Burning
11-25
When Votes Disappear
11-25
Give us non-polluting energy — starting now; The investment in fighting climate change is pathetically low
11-25
Washington Post: Sunny forecast for solar energy shines light on jobs  -   Can Solar Power Revive the US Manufacturing Sector?
11-25
Report finds coal plants deadly
11-25
Energy Firms Come to Terms With Climate Change
11-25
Hot Supreme Court Battle Brewing
11-25
New York Times editorial: Taming King Coal (There is no such thing as "clean" coal.  We may be able to pour billion into cleaning up emissions, but the pollutants don't magically disappear if they don't go up the smokestack. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you prep it for market, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics.)
11-25
Herald Dispatch editorial: U.S. must not forget need for alternative fuels (See above comment. Coal is not "alternative." The coal to liquid process uses huge amounts of energy and water to create the liquid fuel from coal. It also produces about twice the greenhouse gases  for unit of fuel as oil.  Given the dire emergency that is global warming, investing billions into coal to liquid is simply not acceptable.)
11-25
What Are The Tipping Points For US-China Climate And Coal Policy?  (See above comments)
11-25
Beckley Register-Herald: ‘Coal Facts 2006’ offers unique look at industry  (It's time we have a look at the true costs of coal foisted off on current taxpayers and future generations--extinct communities, destroyed property values, ruined ecosystem services, cultural demise, black lung, acid rain, global warming, poisoned groundwater, unraveling biodiversity, planetary peril.)
11-25
Coal-powered ethanol plants release as much as 92 percent more carbon dioxide than those powered by natural gas
11-25
Waste coal power plant OK'd by panel; Opponents vow to continue legal battle   -  State board OKs power plant plans
11-25
India's illegal coal mines turn into death pits
11-25
EU project reveals economic potential of plants as raw materials
11-25
11-25
Growing number of states requiring alternative energy
11-25
Open Energy and Infinia to Develop Solar Powered Stirling Engine
11-25
Hydrogen and fuel cells
11-25
Attenborough calls for climate change action
11-25
Global warming already killing species: Analysis
11-25
Stewards fear global warming
11-25
Green taxes imminent
11-25
'No hope' for Kyoto's greenhouse gas goal
11-25
Govt has 'tricked' people over nuclear power
11-24
Scurrilous mission: Massey Energy CEO seeks stacked regulatory deck
11-24
An Electronic Canary  -  Repairing the U.S. system of voting: 50 concrete steps
11-24
Groups Upset by Claim in Clean Air Suit
11-24
Cooper presses ahead with TVA emissions lawsuit
11-24
US coal plant rush ignores climate risk – UCS
11-24
China's dirty exports: Mercury and soot  -  China's mercury flushes into Oregon's rivers  -  Black carbon major suspect in warming trend
11-24
Interest in biodiesel gains momentum
11-24
Cities balk at contracts for power generated by Utah coal-fired plants
11-24
Environmental review sought before plant expansion OK'd
11-24
Biomass to power China’s coal plants
11-24
The choice is not nuclear energy v coal  -  'Go green or lose to nuclear'
11-24
A Look at Environmentalists’ Role in Global Warming
11-24
Ask the experts: Averting climate change   -   Benn says tackling climate change is up to individuals
11-24
Lecture Predicts Accelerating Climate Change
11-24
Conservation groups criticise carbon storage system  -  Aussie 'super' carbon storage on the cards
11-24
Group warns of climate change in China  -  China's Climate Change Performance Worsening  -  Hong Kong 'climate change threat'
11-24
African leaders urged to link climate change to development
11-24
Global warming's huddled masses
11-24
Kyoto treaty lurches towards next decade
11-24
101 Ways To Kick The Carbon Habit
11-24
Fasten Your Seatbelts for Global Warming
11-24
Climate change storms to impact reefs
11-24
Motor Racing - F1 Catches the Big Green Wave
11-23
Longwall mining: Historic house ruined by mining to be demolished; Couple ends fight with coal behemoth
11-23
Mine deaths: Vigilance required  -  Make Coal Mine Safety a Priority
11-23
Dems Must End Legalized Bribery of Campaign Finance  -  All the way on to lobbying reform
11-23
Senator urges Tennessee to study impact of mercury  -  State to check safety of EPA mercury limits
11-23
More cities in California reject coal-fired power  -  SoCal cities look for alternative energy, reject coal-fired power
11-23
Power Companies Order Up Texas Toast
11-23
Pennsylvania Plans $18 Billion Industrial Project Spending For 2007  (There is no such thing as clean coal. There may be cleaned up emissions, but then the ash is more poisonous. As long as there is mountaintop removal, black lung, low priority for miner safety and pollution of the political system, there can never be clean coal.)
11-23
Wilmington will review potentially toxic ash problem
11-23
The quest for clean energy: China's green revolution
11-23
Canada doubles wind energy output in 2006   -    Harnessing Britain's Wind to Meet Renewable Energy Targets  - 
11-23
Danish Vestas Shares Soar as Wind Power Market Booms
11-23
Officially the worst places to live in the world
11-23
Poland Mourns After Coal Mine Explosion Kills 23
11-23
Tweaking Lights
11-23
Heavyweights want carbon count
11-23
Hurricane Watchers Say Calm 2006 'only a Respite'
11-23
Will Forests Adapt to a Warmer World?
11-23
Uranium Mining Firms Again Eyeing Navajo Land
11-22
World Has Under Decade to Act on Climate Crisis   -  Global warming -- it's personal
11-22
Utilities' Refusal to Plan for Future Cost of Coal Threatens Investors, Consumers
11-22
Spinning Science
11-22
Strip Mining Ban Considered for Tennessee
11-22
It is shocking (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tool-, why not use them?)
11-22
On coal mine safety, another Fletcher fraud
11-22
Pupils Evacuated After Warning at Nuclear Plant
11-22
Fears rise for 15 trapped Polish coal miners; 8 dead
11-22
 
11-22
Global Warming Said Killing Some Species
11-22
Climate: A Matter for Economists
11-22
Diet for a hot planet
11-22
How climate change is hurting us
11-22
Some evangelical Christians preaching environmentalism
11-22
Hollywood Environmentalist Targets Middle America
11-22
Petitioners want declaration on air in two Ky. counties
11-22
No W.Va. stores issue warnings about dangers of mercury in fish
11-22
Report: Mass. is prime location for solar energy adoption
11-22
China plans world's largest solar power plant
11-22
Diane W. Mufson: Now is good time to say 'thank you'
11-22
Tidal Energy
11-22
Nations Sign Pact to Make Fusion Reactor
11-22
Biomass has Future in Ethanol, but Hurdles Loom
11-21
Senator John Kerry mentions mountaintop removal, true costs of coal in letter to Washington Post
11-21
National Coal to Buy W.Va. Mine  -  National Coal to buy West Virginia mine
11-21
Blankenship put coal above miners' safety (letters to the editor are great tools; use them)
11-21
Softening market for coal
11-21
Health costs wrecking Big Three; Miners and families not covered
11-21
The Dirty Truth About Coal in Texas   -  Lawmakers say slow down on coal plants
11-21
Runaway Climate Change - A Frightening Lack Of Leadership
11-21
2007 Crucial in Global Warming Battle
11-21
Restricting mercury
11-21